Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
11 pending office actions • 8 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sakata INX Corporation is currently managing 10 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 7 distinct art units, reflecting a broad technical scope within the chemical field. The prosecution involves 9 distinct examiners, indicating that most cases are being handled by different individuals. This number of 7 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations are being evaluated by many different specialized groups.
BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 2 pending office actions. This concentration is low, as the remaining actions are spread among other examiners. With 9 distinct examiners involved in 10 pending actions, the company's prosecution landscape is decentralized. This requires a case-by-case approach to legal strategy. Practitioners must be prepared to navigate the specific procedural nuances of the various examiners while addressing the technical standards of the art units involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 7 (64%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (36%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | 2 | 57.1% | +40.6% |
| MCNALLY, DANIEL | 1 | 68.0% | +13.6% |
| MUSSER, BARBARA J | 1 | 71.2% | +26.3% |
| YOUNG, WILLIAM D | 1 | 54.3% | +15.2% |
| RICE, STEVEN | 1 | 39.3% | +43.7% |
| BUTCHER, ROBERT T | 1 | 71.1% | +17.0% |
| WHITELEY, JESSICA | 1 | 88.6% | +7.0% |
| STANLEY, JANE L | 1 | 58.4% | +29.5% |
| GOLOBOY, JAMES C | 1 | 63.7% | +8.7% |
| HALL, DEVE V. | 1 | 75.0% | +16.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18724535 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LAMINATED BODY | MUSSER, BARBARA J | 29d |
| 18696300 | RELEASING PRIMER COMPOSITION AND PRINTED MATTER | RICE, STEVEN | — |
| 18559258 | CONDUCTIVE RESIN COMPOSITION | WHITELEY, JESSICA | — |
| 18547326 | WHITE INK COMPOSITION | GOLOBOY, JAMES C | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18264883 | WHITE INK COMPOSITION | HALL, DEVE V. | 2d overdue |
| 18702728 | CONDUCTIVE RESIN COMPOSITION | YOUNG, WILLIAM D | 22d |
| 18262321 | METAL PRINTING INK COMPOSITION AND METHOD USING SAME FOR REDUCING MISTING DURING PRINTING | BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | 26d |
| 17297104 | ELECTRON BEAM CURABLE WATER-BASEDINK-JET INK COMPOSITION | BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | 26d |
| 18724535 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LAMINATED BODY | MUSSER, BARBARA J | 29d |
| 18724498 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LAMINATED BODY | MCNALLY, DANIEL | — |
| 18696300 | RELEASING PRIMER COMPOSITION AND PRINTED MATTER | RICE, STEVEN | — |
| 18683612 | PHOTOCURABLE INKJET PRINTING INK COMPOSITION | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1746 | 2 |
| 1731 | 2 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 1771 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18724498 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LAMINATED BODY | MCNALLY, DANIEL | 1746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18724535 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LAMINATED BODY | MUSSER, BARBARA J | 1746 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18702728 | CONDUCTIVE RESIN COMPOSITION | YOUNG, WILLIAM D | 1761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18696300 | RELEASING PRIMER COMPOSITION AND PRINTED MATTER | RICE, STEVEN | 1787 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18683612 | PHOTOCURABLE INKJET PRINTING INK COMPOSITION | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2024 |
| 18559258 | CONDUCTIVE RESIN COMPOSITION | WHITELEY, JESSICA | 1732 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 18556275 | INK SET | STANLEY, JANE L | 1767 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18547326 | WHITE INK COMPOSITION | GOLOBOY, JAMES C | 1771 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2023 |
| 18264883 | WHITE INK COMPOSITION | HALL, DEVE V. | 1763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Aug 09, 2023 |
| 18262321 | METAL PRINTING INK COMPOSITION AND METHOD USING SAME FOR REDUCING MISTING DURING PRINTING | BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | 1731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
| 17297104 | ELECTRON BEAM CURABLE WATER-BASEDINK-JET INK COMPOSITION | BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | 1731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | May 26, 2021 |
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